North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)

To use your own times file for the daily/hourly composites. There is a 600 time maximum, increased from 160.
  1. Create date file. Format is
    #ntimes
    yyyymmddhh
    yyyymmddhh
    yyyymmddhh
    e.g.
    3
    1999010103
    1999010206
    1999010309
  2. ftp times file:

    anonymous ftp to ftp.cdc.noaa.gov. cd to /Public/incoming/dates. Then, "put" file in directory. File needs to be TEXT

  3. On composite page, type in /Public/incoming/dates/yourfilename for "File with Dates" option.
  4. Typos and times that doen't exist will result in errors.